Jean William Prevost aka Dub just dropped the latest Flat System episode, Dub discusses the Jeep Real Games, the Flatmattersonline year end awards, the future of Flatland with the impact of Covid, the emergence of street brands in flatland, and some product news to boot! Well worth grabbing a cuppa, and enjoying what Dub has to say! Good work!!
Episode 62: Flatmattersonline Exclusive with TJ Perry
The Flatmattersonline exclusives are back and flowing, every Sunday at 6pm GMT is what I am aiming. The exclusives started back with a boom last week when the Women’s UCI World Champion, Irina Sadovnik came through with an amazing x-handed hang 5 to x-handed whiplash out for episode 61!
Can we get to 100 episodes I asked?
TJ Perry hit me up shortly after 61 dropped with an awesome fire hydrant step crackpacker to two footed front yard to crack 360 flapjack clip for episode 62! Great to see TJ back after a 5 year hiatus, he’s gone from riding the roughest parking lot to becoming a real estate agent and owning his own property with his own personal garage spot now making tyres last for months!
It’s great to see TJ back into riding, TJ just celebrated his 35th birthday on Friday, go show TJ some love for this awesome front wheel line. Thanks for contributing TJ, whose got episode 63?
Get in contact and send in your clip. let’s keep this going!
Throwback Thursdays: Keisuke Tanigawa / Oita 2008
During this lockdown in particular, I have been digging through the Flatmattersonline archives more than ever for motivation during these hard times.
Keisuke Tanigawa is one of my favourite riders, I haven’t seen any footage in a minute. But nevertheless, this Oita edit from 2008 is full of gems and so much style.
Liquid flow and technical switches that deserves your attention if you missed it the first time round, the opposite switch foot hang 5 bar flip to spinning half hiker at 4:02 is flat out amazing!!
Fact or Freestyle: Episode 4 / Bill Nitschke and Dean Palacios
Joe Cicman and Dave Nourie are working hard on the Fact or Freestyle episodes, already at episode 4! This episode it is the turn of Bill Nitschke, and the Whopper amongst other subjects.
Episode 61: Flatmattersonline Exclusive with Irina Sadovnik
It’s been a minute since we have dropped a Flatmattersonline Exclusive, so much so that a few heads asked is it still going?!!!
The answer to that is of course yes, this belongs to you. If you have a clip, send it in. I was also in the middle of running the 2020 Flatmattersonline awards, and there is only so much time in the day to get stuff done.
We kick start the FM exclusives back up in 2021, with a few firsts for the site:
1. Obviously this is the first exclusive of the year.
2. This is the first female rider featured on the exclusive.
3. I announce a new category to the 2021 Flatmattersonline Year end awards.
Without further a due, it is time to introduce Irina Sadovnik the UCI 2019 World Champion , who stepped up to the task of throwing down the first video of the 2021. Irina reached out “Hey Effraim, I wish to put some light onto the women flatland riders out there”. I was of course down, she said was buzzing with excitement and when you watch the clip you will why.
With all of Irina’s well documented knee injuries, she is a massive inspiration for me and I am sure you at home. This line is a tough one, and the emotion she shows got me stoked.
To document share and progress, this is Flatland right here!
Thanks Irina, for stepping up. Whose got the next clip?
Can we get to 100 exclusives by the end of the year?
Photo credit: @stefan.csaky
Ultimate Flatland League Demo Video
There is a real buzz in the flatland community about the Ultimate Flatland League starting this year, and with uncertain times very much here with what will happen in the future with the Covid 19 pandemic. You can well understand why, Martti Kuoppa has been working hard on a demo video to showcase in more detail how the event will work.
Over to the Boss:
I have received a great amount of super good feedback about the Ultimate Flatland League online video competition. Many thanks again everyone!
I decided to put together a demo video of all rounds to demonstrate the UFL format more clearly:
Round 1: Ground Tactics non-edited full run (Toon demonstrates it in this video)
Round 2: Master Of Creativity best trick / best combo round (Sietse Van Berkel´s one trick from 2020 MOC)
Round 3: MK Format Live battle. This is captured from a real Zoom battle. (Terry Adams and Toon). The final battle of UFL will be screen recorded and the finalists are asked to use another camera (HD quality) to film the run they perform during the live battle. That is for 2 good reasons: The make sure that if the internet connection is lost there is still the proof for the run and for the post production I need to have much better quality video than what today´s live video calls are offering. The instructions will be a lot more detailed than this but will send them to the ones who are going to ride in the finals. Also, more detailed info will be sent to everyone who are participating the Round 1.
Big thanks to all sponsors of the first Ultimate Flatland League:
www.mkformat.com
www.kunstform.org/en/
www.flatlandfuel.com
This competition will be judged by:
Effraim Catlow
Sebastian Grubinger
York Uno
It looks like I will be limiting the registrations to 30 riders per category so if you have not signed up yet, now it is time to do so:
www.ultimateflatlandleague.com
Thank you!
Martti Kuoppa
Fact or Freestyle: Episode 3 with James McGraw
Joe Cicman and Dave Nourie’s Fact or Freestyle series is gaining momentum, episode 3 features James McGraw! The question is, is Fact or Freestyle? These are fun to watch…
Jody Temple: Lesser Matters
lesser matters from jody temple on Vimeo.
It’s a good day when fresh Jody Temple footage drops, winters sure are kind to Jody and the crew down in Athens, Georgia. As always with Jody’s riding it is all about the details, loving the switch foot inside steam flip to steam concept around the 1:37 mark from no seat contact to seat contact and then steam to switch foot steam, so refreshing to see a different turn of pace on the site. Go watch this one right now, lot to take in.
I am alraedy on the third watch understanding all the switches, good stuff Jody!
Josh Marsele R.I.P – AFA Tarpon Springs, FL 1989
Josh Marsele – AFA Tarpon Springs, FL 1989 from 990Adjustments on Vimeo.
Following the sad announcement of Josh Marsele passing away this past weekend, plenty of heads have kindly sent in archive contest footage of Josh ripping. Here you can see Josh’s run from the AFA Tarpon Springs, FL 1989 where he took first place in 16/17 expert class ahead of none other than Trevor Meyer!
Rest in peace Josh Marsele…
Giannis Caternellis: Freestyler #113
There’s a good reason many of you voted for Giannis Caternellis as “Breakthrough Rider of the Year” in the 2020 Flatmattersonline Year end awards. Giannis is one of the most skilled riders out there, and is constantly experimenting with new moves and styles. Anything goes for Giannis, and it’s always refreshing to watch!
From the opening no handed whiplash, episode #113 in the Freestyler series is a treat.